Snake and Crane Arts of Shaolin (1978, Hong Kong) internet 2.5/5 Jackie Chan with one of his ugliest haircuts stars as Hsu Yin-Fung, the holder of a book containing the secrets of the Snake and Crane style of Kung Fu (the Eight Masters who combined their styles to create it have gone missing). He m...

Drunken Master (1978, Hong Kong) internet 4.5/5 Is there anyone here who HASN'T seen this? Jackie Chan plays Chinese hero Wong Fei Hung, as no one has portrayed him before: as a mischievous screw up who is talented but flawed and always getting into trouble. This leads to his father having him trai...

I think KIller Meteors was Jackie's first-post surgery film (made after but released before Shaolin Wooden Men). ok, I can see that. http://hkmdb.com/db/images/movies/5710/NewFistofFury+1976-76-t.jpg New Fist of Fury http://hkmdb.com/db/images/movies/8822/TheKillerMeteors+1976-24-t.jpg Killer Meteo...

Jackie didn't get an Action Director credit in this movie, instead, its listed as Hsu Hsia and Yuen Wo-Ping and yet much of what we see here is what he's been working on and building up to... same with Drunken Master.
Does anyone have any insight on this?

Snake In The Eagle's Shadow (1978, Hong Kong) youtube 3.5/5 A lot is made of the comedy used in Snake In The Eagle's Shadow and how it started Jackie on a path to fame and fortune (It did), but I think as much as that it's the heart and humanity of this movie that make it unique and special as well...

Thanks :) I was confused by the 'Directed by Jackie Chan' credit on the poster. Trying to pull in every sucker they could! :D What was Jackie's first movie as director? I thought it was Fearless Hyena but could be wrong. That's it. His first as 'Action Director' is listed as Police Woman (1973).

To Kill With Intrigue (1977, Hong Kong) youtube 2/5 I'll be honest - when Hsaio's (Jackie Chan) father says, "It's the Killer Bee Clan.", I chuckled out loud. And some of this dialogue is really bad, even for 70's HK movies, and I don't only mean "I'm just a beast!". Jackie Chan is a character here...

Unless you make the mistake of counting... 36 Crazy Fists (1977, Hong Kong) youtube 2.5/5 https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dwjeB5TVyxs/W3AiIfSAJmI/AAAAAAAAItM/-NSVYjiy_yIDYZtwdNFv-aa8Zn9_UjaNACLcBGAs/s640/Screen%2BShot%2B2018-08-12%2Bat%2B8.01.28%2BAM.png I wonder how many people bought a copy of this mov...

Shaolin Wooden Men (1976, Hong Kong) youtube 3/5 Jackie Chan's 5th and final movie of 1976 (and 2nd lead role) is as a mute Shaolin student who's seen as kind of a slacker half-wit. But he befriends a prisoner (Kam Kong - his movie name pronounced as Fok Yu!) in the dungeon who teaches him some tec...

The Himalayan (1976, Hong Kong) youtube 3/5 I was looking for Shaolin Wooden Men and saw this on youtube and thought... why not? Released as the last movie Jackie was in before New Fist of Fury, it stars Chan Sing (who'd play the Iron Fisted monk a year and a half later) as a guy who kills his own ...

Killer Meteors definetly grew on me, but it seems that just as Lo Wei kept miscasting Jackie, he did Wang Yu a disservice here by casting him in a romance/intrigue filled melodrama which doesn't suit Wang Yu's style at all. The fights also rely too much on wirework and Wang being acrobatically doub...

The Killer Meteors (1976, Hong Kong) youtube 2/5 Not Jimmy Wang Yu's best by far, but his 'bar room brawling' style of 'martial arts' and cocky attitude are still fun to watch. Jackie Chan as the bad guy is refreshing and he's actually pretty good at it (minus the ridiculous dialogue), but his part...

The Hand of Death (1976, Hong Kong) youtube 2/5 Fierce kicking Shaolin student Yung (Dorian Tan) goes on a quest to put together fighters to take on the 'Manchus' (yet again) and kill their leader (James Tin), while trying to escort a messenger (director John Woo) to safety. Sammo Hung plays a top ...

Lo Wei seemed to forget how to make good movies around '73. I genuinely enjoy his Shaw wu wxias and early Golden Harvest work, but with A Man Called Tiger, he started making very talky and po-faced drama interspersed with a few fights, New Fist being the main example. He did rebound though with Dra...

New Fist of Fury (1976, Hong Kong) youtube 1/5 At 21-22, Jackie still looks really young, but it's not entertaining at all to watch him flail around and act like he doesn't know kung fu through 3/4ths of this movie. Nora Miao is her usual stiff self, and other than wincing everytime a Chinese chara...

I'm one of those who hated The Fearless Hyena, although it's been yonks since I've seen it. I consider it a failed post-Seasonal experiment which Jackie corrected with The Young Master. I don't remember liking it as much as I did watching it now. I definitely didn't hate it back in the day, but I d...

The Cub Tiger from Kwangtung (1973, Hong Kong) youtube 2/5 As far as I can tell, this is the original complete movie, not the spliced up Frankenstein thats appeared in various forms over the years. A 17-year-old Jackie Chan (sources say this was actually filmed in 1971) stars as Ah Lung, a boy whos...

Fearless Hyena (1980, Hong Kong) bluRay thru haiuken 3.5/5 One of the more underrated of Jackie Chan’s earlier movies, it was his first directing and followed the success of Drunken Master. Jackie had found a variation on the traditional set-up (adding comedy) and he was going to milk it, though so...

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000, Hong Kong) DVD 5/5 I'm not one of those that ever joined the backlash in putting this movie down, as I thought it was exceptional from the first time I saw it to now. Sure, there are a whole lot of other Hong Kong movies out there that are good or even great, b...

The Four Roughnecks (あばよダチ公) (Japan, 1974) [DVD] - 3.5/5 Four young slackers (three incels and one Yusaku Matsuda) with total disregard for honesty and other people's property retreat to a isolate, riverside hut with a girl (Sayoko Kato) who hooks up with them. This 70s neo-taiyozoku film is stacke...